por LlucMarti | Jul 21, 2022 | Getting technical
The answer is simple, carbon fibers have a diameter between 5 and 10 micrometers. But that is kind of hard to visualize, right? So, let’s compare them to something all humans have (some more than others), hair! Luckily, we have a very nice picture...
por LlucMarti | Jul 14, 2022 | Story-time
The answer is Boron fiber! Boron fibers were first discovered in 1959 and were developed during the 1960s into the first true high-performance fibers. Until that time, glass fiber was the only other high-strength fiber available in continuous lengths, and the low...
por LlucMarti | Jul 12, 2022 | Getting technical
As many questions related to materials engineering, to answer that we have to understand the unit cell structure of the material, in this case, graphite.The crystal structure of graphite consists of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms arranged two-dimensionally in a honeycomb...
por LlucMarti | Jul 5, 2022 | Newsfeed
Wind Energy Industry: Let’s kick off our newsfeed with very exciting news: a project that aims to pioneer the use of natural fiber composites in the wind energy industry! The project Green Nacelle is commissioned by DOT (Delft Offshore Turbine), a leading wind turbine...
por LlucMarti | Abr 19, 2022 | Smart Content
What are composites? Composites are basically heterogeneous materials, constituted by the mixture of two or more materials (or composites) with different properties, and giving the new composite material its own properties. The composite material is intended to...
